After an eight-year legal battle full of twists and turns, Facebook agreed to settle a case with Frédéric Durand-Baïssas, a French kindergarten teacher who sued the company for suspending his account ...

Two women were arrested by French police on Monday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz after they targeted The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet, a provocative painting centered on a nude torso ...

The Musée D’Orsay has filed a police complaint following an incident at the Pompidou-Metz on 6 May, in which Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World (1866) was tagged with “Me Too” graffiti. The ...

In October 2011, the French kindergarten teacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas posted a link on Facebook to an article about Gustave Courbet’s controversial painting “L’Origine du monde” (“The Origin of the ...